Christian Nerlinger was fired as Sporting Director and has been replaced with Matthias Sammer, who was the director of the German football federation for 6 years. LINK

Some players were signed to professional contracts from the youth team, all are expected to spend most of their time with the reserves.

Patrick Weihrauch 18 year old German striker. Mitchell Weiser 18 year old midfielder/wingback from Troisdorf, Germany. More of a winger playing defender but supposed to be a great talent. Lukas Raeder an 18 year old keeper signed from FC Schalke's setup. Very tall and looks to be a promising understudy.

Emre Can, 18, signed a professional contract last year but is still very young and very promising. He should get some more first team chances with the injury situation with Bastian Schweinsteiger whose ankle hasn't healed properly. He's regarded as a very good midfielder who will be a longterm starter for Bayern. He was on the bench for a few games but Heynckes hates integrating new talent so he stayed on the bench. Should split his time between Bayern and Bayern II.

Bayern begin training tomorrow, can't wait to hear how the new players are looking.

re: 2012/2013 Bayern Munchen Season Long Thread - Treble Edition(Posted by Tweezy on 7/2/12 at 5:04 pm to Jumbeauxlaya)

You can talk about them but I can't assure you that anyone will care haha just kidding but I wouldn't mind this also being a semi bundesliga in general thread. I'm planning on diving head first this season. Past few years I've just watched bayern exclusively, but I'm going to try and follow the league as a whole and watch non bayern games this year. Wish me luck

re: 2012/2013 Bayern Munchen Season Long Thread - Treble Edition(Posted by Jumbeauxlaya on 7/2/12 at 5:13 pm to Tweezy)

Mostly messing with you all, but I am going to make an effort to watch a lot more of the league this year, and plan on picking up borussia Dortmund as my team based on my ancestors being from that area.

Note: I lay no claim to the past championships, my fandom starts now.. As I know it probably looks bandwagoney to jump on them now..

re: 2012/2013 Bayern Munchen Season Long Thread - Treble Edition(Posted by Tweezy on 7/2/12 at 5:19 pm to Jumbeauxlaya)

Not that I'm really an expert or even very well informed about the bundesliga, I feel like there aren't any band wagon teams because of the way the clubs are run. Bayern has the most championships and Dortmund won the last two, but they are very anti man city type of clubs. Only 3 or 4 clubs are in debt and all but I think 2 are majority fan owned, the other two are owned by I think VW and maybe another car company. The league allows them to have a majority owner because they have always been run like than. Seems like a fun league, great fan attendance, decent parity.

re: 2012/2013 Bayern Munchen Season Long Thread - Treble Edition(Posted by acgeaux129 on 7/3/12 at 1:19 pm to hendersonshands)

I'm not German at all but I've started to follow Bayern and the national team a little bit because I love watching them play. I only really got to see Bayern play UCL games, may have caught one Bundesliga game.

What's the best way to watch Bundesliga games in English since they aren't on FSC? Also, do y'all know of any upcoming plans or deals for broadcasting the league in the future?